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This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date.

Tree of Smoke was the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

• Denis Johnson
• Published 1970 January 1st by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 2004 September 4th)
• ISBN: 0374279128
• ISBN13: 9780374279127
• 614 Pages
• 3.61 15748 ratings
• 1739 reviews